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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Botswana in AI travel recommendations

country · overall rank 139 of 233 · rank 95 among country destinations

AI models put Botswana in their top 10 recommendations in 0.5% of answers, rank 139 overall. It does best when the question specifies how it's asked as underrated: 3.1%, +2.6 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores +0.7 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend Botswana in their top 10, averaged model by model and then platform by platform, so each platform counts equally.

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By platform

PlatformScore
Claude0.5%
ChatGPT1.2%
Gemini0.4%
Grok0.0%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 51.2%
Claude Sonnet 50.0%
Claude Haiku 4.50.4%
GPT-5.6 Terra0.8%
GPT-5.6 Luna1.6%
Gemini 3.8 Flash0.4%
Grok 4.60.0%

Web search and effort

Botswana · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Botswana with web search on and off, and at each model's lowest and normal effort setting.

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SettingSearch on / normal effortSearch off / lowest effort
Web search on vs off0.9%0.2%
Normal vs lowest effort0.5%0.5%

The repeated baseline question never put this destination in its top 10, so it has no repeat figure.

By kind of question

How much higher or lower the score is on questions that ask for each option, in percentage points against the overall score. Outlined cells are below the overall score.

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
UnderratedWhere should I go?
Change+2.60.0

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
ExoticAdventure
Change+2.4+1.4

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Requires a flightAt most two connections
Change+1.0−0.2

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Low RainWarm Weather
Change+1.0−0.2

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
SoloCouple
Change+0.6+0.1

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
SpringFall
Change+0.5−0.1

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Two weeks
Change+0.3

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Botswana13
Okavango Delta5
The Okavango Delta1

Botswana

Most questions went to each model at each setting only once, and a model read the answers, so a reading can be wrong. The methodology has the details.

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